Dave Chappelle Shows Us All the Proper Way to Flaunt Your Emmy

What would you do if you won an Emmy? Would you selflessly gift it to your parents? Stash it away on a bookshelf? Put it in your refrigerator, like Richard Dreyfuss does with his Oscar, or in your bathroom, like Kate Winslet does with hers? There are so many options—yet Dave Chappelle has presented us with the best and flashiest one, which would be just carrying it around everywhere you go.

TMZ recently caught up with the comedian, who just picked up his first-ever Emmy (he won guest actor in a comedy series for hosting Saturday Night Live). Chappelle was apparently walking around West Hollywood and brandishing his trophy, just waiting to be snapped by the paparazzi.

“You never seen someone just walk around with their Emmy,” he joked to the TMZ cameraman. “Keep an eye out for me, I’ll be doing this shit all day.”

So, why was he showing off the trophy? “Because I got one, and nobody can see it in the house,” he said. Chappelle added that he plans to “put it on a necklace and wear this shit like Slick Rick.”

It might surprise comedy fans to learn that this is Chappelle’s first Emmy, especially considering the legendary status his Comedy Central series, Chapelle’s Show, reached in the early aughts. After walking away from the show and decamping to Yellow Springs, Ohio, Chappelle gained a shroud of mystique, lending his namesake series a hagiographic quality. Chappelle’s Show was nominated for three Emmys in 2004, but lost them all; Chappelle was nominated the following year for his stand-up special For What It’s Worth, but lost that one to the 58th annual Tonys ceremony. This year, he’s made a noisy comeback—and was able to break through to Emmys voters. Hell, he might even be up for another statuette next year, now that he’s got a bunch of comedy specials on Netflix and even more planned.

The comedian frankly shared that he still thinks “the whole thing’s silly” when it comes to awards, because no one can really judge whether one piece of art is truly better than another—but hey, he’s still happy he won.

“It’s all subjective,” he said. “But it’s nice to be recognized by people in the industry that I thought long ago forgot about me. So this belongs to everybody that didn’t let ‘em forget.”